The Forrest City times., 1887-11-05
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900 for the patent medicines whlcn " toh- | sumes.
 1 Nearly oue-half of the people who died in Boston last week were children under 5 years Of ase. ars | Massachusetts pays for maintaining her eonvicts ssoo,ooo per year more than they I produce. lra "
 The skin Of the catfish Is now tanned into . leather In Germany. It is tough, supple. and appears we'll
 The canvassers of the new city directory of Atlanta, Ga, expect to foot up population of over 70,0OJ.
 A hortlculturist says that variegated shrubs generally succeed better in Q rather poor soil than in a rich one.
 A blackblrd flew against telegraph-wire in Tifiin, the other day with such force as to smputate one of its wings.
 Pittsburgh is going to have a hospital for sick horses, nine hundred acres of land having been leased for that purpose.
 The American cup committee will prepare and print a complete history of the recent trial contests and the late famous victory.
 It has recently been discovered at Paterson, N J., that one grave has been sold to three different parties, and used by each for burial purposes.
 "A bridge ticket gifen away with efery suit O clo'esn is the tempting bait offered by Chatham street, New York, clothlers to passing countymen
 A man named Gilbert Is said to have walked and run from Paris to Bouiognet l56 miles in 36 consecutive hours. or al the average rate of 411S miles an hour.
 An odd pair of twins were recently born at the Summit county (ohio) infrmsry The oddne.s consisted of one of the babies being black and the other white. Ex
 Four faro games are running here now, says The Tombstoas (Arizona) h1ataph, white there was only one month ago. Another evidence of the coming boom.
 In Jackson county, Georgia, the Swear old daughter of Mir. H. Coward died and her llt- tie dog took up position on her grave, and died of grief shortly afterward. Mrs. John Caton, of the township of Darling, Quebec, died the other day at the age of lo3 years and months. Her husband died about ten years ago at 105 years of age.
 The Philadelphia board of health has order cd house. to- house inspectoin of the Sixteenth ward of that city, hoping thereby to ward oG a threatened epidemic of typhoid fevor. Says The Nee York Snt: ''The Volunteer stole . march on her canny antagonist on Thursday night by hauling out on Tebo's dry dock and having her pot-lead rubbed over"
 The Philads s,phia North Aneriean nomi- mates the following ticket: For president, Edward Burgess, of Massachusetts. For vice president, Gen. Paine, of Massachusetts, In single ward of Philadelphia there are five hundred cases of typhoid fever. The di sease is attributed to the defective sewerage system of the city, which is chiefly on the sur face.
 Dr. Tallcott, the superintendent of New York insane asylum, declares early rising to be a most pernicious habit and one which, fl persisted in, does much to injure the mental health
 Berlin is unusually fuil of Americans this season, although the university is not yet open and musical work is scarcely begun. | The city is becoming more and more resort for Americans.
 Thomas Smith, of Virginia, killed an eagle and George Thomas, a nelghbor of his, felt his patriotic impulses so outraged that he turned to and pounded Thomas within an inch Of his life.
 A pet goat, like Mrs. O'Leary's famous COW. kicked over a lamp in a residence at VIsalia, Cal, one day recently, and before the fire was extinguished g 600 damage had been done. The goat escaped
 A little girl wasn't far wrong when she told her Sunday school teacher in answer to the question, "Whst is the worst thing about | that xvas xxa amt any fi We can all say that
 A large amount of alfalfa will be thrashed this year Tn Tulare county. California. A larger acreage was allowed to go to seed than had been calculated on and in some instances the yield has been very heavy.
 The bltuminous coal operators along the At lantic slope are averaging nearly thirty thou sand tons per day. Several new mines will be opened next spring and the producing capaci- ty increased to forty thousand tons.
 ''Ah, my little dear" said the new minister, as he took girl of on his lap, "are you the oldest of the familyF' ''No ma'am," re sponded the little miss. with the usual accur acy of childhood, ''my pa's older'n me"
 All third and fourth class railway restau rants in Prussia are required by law to provide cup of good hot coffee, without milk ol sugar, for pfennlngs (about 1A cents), and the same with milk or sugar at double the price.
 Anent the advance in the price of coal 1t Is generally believed in Philadelphia that much more coal has been ordered by wholesale deal CTS than they can possibly get rid of and that sooner or later there win be a drop In retail prizes.
 An advertisement in a Florida paper ssk' for one thousand young aligators five hun dred pounds of large alligator teeth, five hun dred roseate spooubill wings and all the alli- gator skins in the country. The advertiser is naturalist.
 In Chester, s. C., Mir. J. Harvey Heely hai been indicted for sending challenge to Mir J. E. McMurray, and it Is announced that tht law officers of the state are going to convince all concerned that the statute against dueliDa Is not dead letter.
 The old colored preacher whorecently warn ed his congregation that "whGtsomeber yo, do, you mustn't monkey wid Jesus" could with little practice, rival Sam Jones 'n pull pit slang, and would be prepared for sensa tional revival work
 There are nowi New England l9l,000 peo pie who can neither read nor write. In ths state or Pennsylvanla 322 oO), and in the stat, of New York 24l, 900, while in the Unltct States there are nearly 100000 who car neither read nor write.
 The increase in the number of public school in the southern states from 40,000 in 1880 te 6i 1888 in 1887, as shown by recent compila tion of official reports, is one of the mos gratifying features in the development of tha region, says TAe Philddepha Fress
 novel relic of the presidents visit Is ex hlbited at Philadelphia. 1t is section o Brussels carpet worn by thousands Of fee passing in front of the president at hls re eeption. In making the tour from the ap | proaeh to the exit the crowd of hand-shaker ! all turned upon the same spot in front of tn president, wearing it through with grea nicety and precision.